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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bushboy on September 26, 2015, 05:49:09 pm

Title: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: bushboy on September 26, 2015, 05:49:09 pm
At the local store I saw an add for a 1960 for the price of. 395$ canadian.thoughts,thanks bush!
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on September 26, 2015, 07:53:46 pm
A 60 is a sweet shooting bow, but it's not a '59. The price is high to me. I just bought a Kodiak Magnum and a Black Bear for $50 a piece.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on September 26, 2015, 08:27:53 pm
Well you got a hell of a buy at fifty bucks a piece. 395 is too much tho. 250- 300 is where id say its worth (to me anyways)
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on September 26, 2015, 10:26:49 pm
I never pay much more then that. I did pay $60 for a '62 Kodiak Special I ended up trading for a Flintlock.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: JEB on September 27, 2015, 09:33:46 am
I agree that the price is a bit high.  If it was in like new condition maybe.  Like Eddie, I buy Bear bows often for $50.00 or less often here in Michigan. Some folks price bows to sell and some price them to keep.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: hunterbob on September 27, 2015, 11:41:28 am
I have a 1967 1/2 kodiak. That's is nice and shoots great if someone is interested.  It's alot more than 60 bucks . I give 400 for it
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on September 27, 2015, 12:31:18 pm
Read JEB's reply.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on September 28, 2015, 12:49:36 am
Ive always been able to sell bows at near what i bought them for. Round here they pretty well hold value. I cant speak for how it works in other areas but i know as fact that i bought a bow at a good deal a few years ago and could now sell it at a profit
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on September 28, 2015, 11:20:06 am
Generally there are two types of sellers. ones who over price and over value items, and those who under price and undervalue items. When someone looks online and sees 5 bows for $300, they then post their bow at $300. The others throw theirs up for $50 and they get snatched up. the correct answer is they are worth whatever someone will pay for them. Be it $500 or $10.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on September 28, 2015, 11:20:06 pm
Ive got to agree with internet prices skewing actual value. Im fortunate enough to be good friends with an archery tackle dealer so i dont get taken or accidentally make unfair deals (according to him) (bear in mind too my prices are in a northern canadian market)
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on September 29, 2015, 10:47:08 am
Ive got to agree with internet prices skewing actual value. Im fortunate enough to be good friends with an archery tackle dealer so i dont get taken or accidentally make unfair deals (according to him) (bear in mind too my prices are in a northern canadian market)
They have bows up there?  >:D If your dog runs away can you watch him for a week?
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on September 29, 2015, 12:54:25 pm
Hahaha BC mate. Not Saskatchewan.  I come from where you can pee outside and it freeze before it hits the ground xD haha
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: bushboy on September 29, 2015, 06:50:07 pm
Thx's 4 the replies!at 400 bones I could buy a lot of osage and have more fun than shooting a glass bow.i think here in manitoba we have most people beat for prairie and cold!two winters ago we had over 90 days that were -35c and I worked out side every day!hardest part is to have a pee,finding it under all that cloths lol!recently they named the coldest part of Mars winnipeg!
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on September 29, 2015, 09:41:24 pm
I'm waiting to go back up to Alberta, the job proposal was submitted. I never get to go without seeing that white stuff on the ground. Something about mobilizing the drill rigs till the permafrost is frozen.

And I don't pee till I get back to Florida, too much trouble to shed clothes, get out a flash light, and squat.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on September 29, 2015, 11:49:00 pm
Haha. No matter where yar in our true north strong and free.... it gets darn cold from time to time
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on September 30, 2015, 05:33:17 pm
, get out a flash light, and squat.

i never suspected you squatted >:D to pee.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: le0n on September 30, 2015, 06:01:07 pm
^^ because prince albert?
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on September 30, 2015, 10:40:36 pm
Try getting feeling in your fingers and then finding it when it's minus 40.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on October 06, 2015, 12:49:21 am
i know all about minus forty... and unprepared yet in waist deep snow with a pack full of soon to be pelts on my back.. we only went out at -35. with the snow as it was a two hour snow shoe turned into a seven hour slug into the freezing night. we (my buddy and i) had two bottles of frozen water, a granola bar a piece and thank god he had the sense of mind to pack a lighter. i swear that fire we lit (with pocket lint as the starter) saved my toes from frostbite that day. ill never go out so stupidly unprepared again ill tell ya what.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 06, 2015, 08:58:07 am
Love the Winter, or ah well at least I used to....now I just like it.  I remember one Winter some 20 years ago we had pretty well a month of -40 and more as an overnight low, it was a bit brutal.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: Urufu_Shinjiro on October 06, 2015, 12:20:09 pm
It's stories like these that makes me want to say "I'll never complain about the Florida heat again", but of course I will so I don't say it, lol. Though as a way of demonstrating how cold it can feel in Jacksonville, Fl between the river and the sea I had a friend from Canada (can't recall quite where but I'm guessing a drier area) visiting, it was her first winter in north Florida, stepped outside one morning and said "Brr, must be 18deg out here", I asked her if she meant Fahrenheit, she said yeah and I proceeded to laugh, I said "It's only 37"...
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on October 06, 2015, 12:27:50 pm
HAHA, my cousin grew up in Green River Wyoming, she now lives in Vegas and complains about the cold. I have to remind her that her lows now were her highs in her childhood.
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: jayman448 on October 06, 2015, 01:28:51 pm
There is a truth to that. Minus fifteen celcius im fine to feed the dogs in a t shirt and shorts. I head down to the vancouver coast to see famiky and im bundled up and complaining at five above freezing
Title: Re: fred bear kodiak?
Post by: mullet on October 06, 2015, 08:10:27 pm
Yea, I've peeled out of clothes when I'm in Alberta when it warms up to 0 c, and didn't hunt the last weekend of the season in Ocala, Fl. because it was in the upper teens F.

I saw it was in the 40's in Alberta today, I guess I'll get the word to go when in drops into the - dgs.